Article 12
1
Member States may exempt:
a
from the application of Article 11, small producers all of whose production and sales of vegetable propagating and planting material is intended for final use by persons on the local market who are not professionally involved in plant production (‘local circulation’);
b
from the controls and official inspection referred to in Article 18, the local circulation of vegetable propagating and planting materials produced by such exempt persons.
2
Implementing measures relating to other requirements concerning the exemptions referred to in paragraph 1, in particular as regards the concepts of ‘small producers’ and ‘local market’, and to the relevant procedures, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 21(2).